Oliver Edgcumbe

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Oliver Pearce Edgcumbe CBE CB MC ( May 16, 1892 - December 11, 1956 ) was a British general.

Oliver Edgcumbe was a son of Sir Robert Edgcumbe and his wife Frances Foley. He attended Winchester College and then the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . As an officer in the British Army, Edgcumbe began his career in 1911 with the Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry , which took part in the First World War . In 1920 he switched to the Royal Signals . From 1927 to 1928 he attended Staff College Camberley . During World War II , he served as Director of Organization in the War Office from 1941 to 1942 . From 1944 to 1947 he was head of the British SZEB commission and thus a member of the Allied Control Commission for Hungary . In this capacity he had to accept the expulsion of the Hungarian Germans after the British government had approved the measure called resettlement. However, he refused to extradite German war criminals to Hungary by the Allies, because he feared that Hungary was trying to divert attention from its role in World War II. In 1947 he retired as major general and retired to Radnor Cliff , Folkestone .

Edgcumbe received several awards for his services. During the First World War he received the Military Cross in 1915 . In 1942 he was awarded the Order of Commander of the British Empire and in 1948 he was named Companion of the Order of the Bath . In 1945 he received the Order of Commander of the Legion of Merit from the USA .

Edgcumbe had married Iris Cox , a daughter of William Pallet Cox , in 1935 .

Web links

  • EDGCUMBE, Major-General Oliver Pearce , Who Was Who, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014, accessed on May 11, 2017
  • Oliver Pearce-Edgecumbe on thepeerage.com , accessed September 7, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RM Douglas: 'Proper Transfer': The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62294-6 , p. 267
  2. ^ Regina Fritz: After the war and the murder of Jews. Hungary's history policy since 1944. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-2285-1 , p. 194
personal data
SURNAME Edgcumbe, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edgcumbe, Oliver Pearce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1892
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1956